OK, now I know a lot of you have probably seen this little gem, so I am very late in the game, but I picked it up for $5 at Walmart last week, and damn, if this isn't a great find!!! Another comedy horror classic by Landis. Though not as good as American Werewolf, it is a very entertaining flick, and a little original vampire film. And you gotta love cameos by Tom Savini, Dario Argento, Sam Raimi, Forrest J. Ackerman and Linnear Quiggley among others. Plus Anne Parillaud (SP?), the original La Femme Nikita, as the vampiress, nude and looking great. Nuff said? The movie's great, the price is great, go out and get this if you don't already own it. The only flaw in this disc, is it's full screen.

I really liked that movie and have fond memories of it. I was really psyched about seeing it after reading about it in Fangoria. Argento's cameo in the ambulance was great and I especially love how mainstream audiences were probably scratching their heads over it (not knowing who he was). And damn if that Anne Parillaud didn't have the hairiest bush I've seen since the seventies!

I gotta say, when I first saw this film in the theaters, I actually walked out. To this day I can't remember what triggered that behavior. A few people tossed this title around since then, and i was always trying to grand stand saying dumb stuff like, "Awww, i walked out of that film!"

But curiosity, THANKFULLY, got the better of me. I gave it another shot, and i feel so stupid. I have no idea why i walked out. Maybe the 'cheetah' screams coming from a vampire rubbed me wrong. It's still a bit annoying, but other than that, this was a good blend of a 'mob' story and a 'vampire flick', and carries all the dark comedy you'd expect from John Landis, which maybe i wasn't understanding when i saw it in the theaters.

Either way, for that price, that's a good buy. Not some outstanding flick, but a pretty entertaining plot with vampires and the mob!

Yeah, the horror cameos are great, but the mob actors are a real hoot too. You got Robert Loggia and Chazz Palmenteri, but Don Rickles really steals the show with one of the best Vampire deaths in screen history.

It's an admirable return to horror for Landis. I really loved the eye effects on the vamps. Creepy stuff!
One quibble with the movie and it's a very minor one. The vamps were too easy to kill! Sunlight's a given, but a shot to the head. (ugh!)

P.S. About the 'cheetah' sounds, didn't Landis use something similar in the introduction to the TZ movie?

I just saw this for the first time and was disappointed. The movie wasn't bad, just pretty average. The mob angle was fun, but the leads were very boring and killing vampires with head shots, WTF? There were some very funny moments, but not really anything scary so it didn't have that horror/comedy duality that American Werewolf had down pat.

I saw this in the theater and the only thing stopping me from seeing it again is the fact that we only have a full-frame, extras-free release. Gimme a SE and I'll pull my wallet out tout suite.

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Same here. But fucking lame-ass Warner (right now, they're eclipsing Paramount as the studio I most want to punch in the face!!) aren't in the market to even release a region-1 Creepshow edition. So we can forget about a better release of this film.

Although... if I'm not mistaken, I don't think the movie's been upgraded to a normal case like several of Warner's other snap-shut cardboard cases. So maybe there's a slight chance they'll re-release someday.